Ear-corn conveyer for corn-shellers.



No. s7|,4s3. Patented A pr. 9,1901. L. r. a s. susnrzv.

EAR CORN CONVEYER FOR CORN SHELLERS.

(Application filed Nov. 26, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVI F. SI-IERFEY AND JOSEPH E. SHERFEY, OF AVOCA, NEBRASKA.

EAR-CORN CONVEYER FOR CORN-SHELLERS.

SPECIFIGA'JZION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 671,453, dated April 9, 1901.

Application filed November 26, 1900. Serial No. 37,886, (No model.)

I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LEVI F. SHERFEY and JOSEPH E. SHERFEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Avoca, in the county of Cass and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Ear-Corn Oonveyer for Corn- Shellers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is an improved ear-corn conveyer for corn-shellers adapted to convey corn from a corn-crib or the like to a corn-shelling machine to feed the latter, the object of our invention being to provide an improved earcorn conveyer which maybe used in connection with a corn-shelling machine of any variety and which may be disposed at any required angle, with its inner end either within or out of the corn-crib.

Our invention consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of an earcorn conveyer embodying our improvements, showing the same in operative position to convey corn from a crib to a corn-shelling machine. Fig. 2 isa partial top plan View of our improved earcorn conveyer, showing the same mount-ed on the feed-elevator of a cornshelling machine. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the inner end of our improved ear-corn conveyer. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the standards to which the upper end of our improved ear-corn conveyer is pivotally and detachably connected.

To enable our invention to be readily understood, We have in Fig. 1 of the drawings shown our improved ear-corn conveyer A in connection with a corn-crib B and a cornshelling machine 0. The machine is of any suitable construction and forms no part of our present improvements and is provided with the usual inclined feed-elevator D and with a power-shaft E, from which we derive power to operate our improved ear-corn conveyer.

In the embodiment of our invention we provide a pair of standards 1, which are curved on their outer sides, as at 2, concentrically, or nearly so, with the shaft E, the said standards being attached by belts or other suitable devices to the sides of the feed-elevator D of a corn-shelling machine. In the form of our invention here shown the standards 1 com prise the arch-shaped or segmental bars 3,.

bearings for a shaft hereinafter described.

Near their lower ends the said bars 3 are provided with stop-hooks 6. Said bars 3are braced and supported by strap-arms 7. The said standards,as willbe understood, will be readily attached to the sides of the feed-elevator of the corn-shelling machine and may beadapted to the shape and inclination thereof.

The trunk or trough of our improved earcorn conveyer A is of suitable length and breadth and comprises the side boards 8 and connecting-board 9, the latter being disposed about midway between the sides of the side boards 8, the said trunk or trough being practically H-shaped in cross-section. In the upper end of the conveyer-trunk is journaled a shaft 10, the ends of which project beyond the sides of the conveyer-trunk and rest. upon the arc-shaped sides of the standards 1 and are adapted to bear and rotate either in the recesses 5 at the upper sides of said standards l or on the hooks 6 near the lower sides of said standards. To the said shaft 10 is keyed a sprocket-wheel 11, which is connected to a sprocket-wheel12 on' the'power-shaft E of the corn-shelling machine by an endless sprocket-chain 13. The said shaft 10 is fur ther provided with sprocket-wheels 1 1, which engage and operate the endless chains 15 of the endless conveying element of the conveyer. The said chains are connected together by the flights 16, said chains and flights operating on the board 9 and the said chains engaging suitable sprocket-wheels on a shaft 17 near the lower or inner end of the conveyertrunk, which shaft 17 is journaled in suitable bearings in the side boards 8 of the conveyer-trunk.

It will be understood from the foregoing that ourimproved conveyer has its upper end pivotally mounted on the standards 1 and adjustable thereon and that the lower inner end of our conveyer may be raised or lowcred, as may be required, to dispose the same either on the ground immediately below the door of a corn-crib, as shown in full lines in Fig. 1, or to run the same into the door of a corn-crib and support it on the floor thereof, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The inner free end of the trunk of the conveyer is provided on its upper side with flared boards 18, which facilitate the feeding thereof with ear-corn from the crib.

When the corn-shelling machine is in operation, power is conveyed from the shaft E thereof to the shaft 10 of the ear-corn con veyer by the sprocket-wheels 11 12 and chains 13, thereby actuating the endless conveying element of our conveyer and causing the earcorn to be conveyed from the crib and discharged into the feed-elevator of the cornshelling machine. When the crib is full, or nearly so, the inner free end of the trunk of our conveyer is disposed on the ground just below and opposite the door of the crib, as shown in full line in Fig. 1, so that when the door is opened the corn will be fed by gravity into the conveyer. When the corn will no longer flow and requires-to be shoveled into the conveyer, the inner end of the trunk thereof is disposed on the floor of the crib, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, to facilitate the shoveling of the corn thereinto.

Having thus described our invention, we claim 1. In combination with acorn-shelling machine having a feed-elevator and a powershaft, standards secured on the sides of the said feed-elevator and having curved faces concentric with said power-shaft and bearingsat the ends of said curved faces, an endwisemovable corn conveyer comprising a trunk and an endless traveling conveying element, the latter having a shaft journaled in said trunk, bearing on said curved faces of the standards and shiftable when said conveyer is moved endwise into the bearings at either end of said curved faces, and thereby forming a pivotal and'adjustable connection between said conveyer and the corn-shelling machine, and operative connections between ,said shaft and the power-shaft of the cornvshelling machine, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a corn-shelling machine having a feed-elevator and a powershaft, standards secured on the sides of the said feed-elevator and having bearings concentrically disposed with relation to said 5 power shaft, an endwise movable ear corn conveyer comprising a trunk and an endless traveling conveying element, the latter having a shaft journaled in said trunk, adjust- I able in the bearings of said standards and 

